Sakura's Journey Chapter 7, a slender fanfic

Sakura's Journey Chapter 7 Very Predictable Event That is Hopefully not Cliché

I woke-up this morning to feel a dull pulse of energy echo through me. I remembered my dad's words on what would happen when I was going to change...But he did say slenders started to feel it hours before you even got close to changing. I gazed at myself in the mirror, anxiety obvious in my own eyes. So I could grow painful tentacles from my back, feel people's minds against my own and live with a slender for a dad, but the idea that I myself would just...lose my face...That scared me. Still, I got dressed, ate breakfast and headed to school. As my mom drove me there, I was absentmindedly gazing out my window. Her voice brought me out of my thoughts. "Nervous?" I smiled faintly and looked down, fiddling with the striped scarf. I knew I probably wasn't alowed scarves at school, but I'd be willing to challenge anyone who tells me to take it off.

As I arrived there, I began to look around the school yard. I spotted a single dot of bright green in the sea of colors. As soon as Daemon saw me, he ran towards me. "KURA! Thank God you're back! Now you can protect me from the bullies." I hugged him and laughed a bit. "Yeah. I'll fry their brains out with my epic slendy powers."I was so glad I had better controle of my powers now. Rather than feeling everyone's auras at once, giving me a buzzing migrain, I could focus on a single person at a time, or even shut my mind away from everyone. I honestly hadn't expected anybody to miss me at all, so imagine my surprise when several people came to me to ask me if I was ok. I unfortunately also got comments along the lines of "Aw get your germs away from me, freak." Around lunch time, I felt a second pulse of energy. It was more powerful than the first one and I shuddered, actually paling a little bit. Now I was slightly worried. "Hey Sakura, you ok?" I sensed the worry coming off of Daemon. I swallowed the lump in my throat and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." He raised a brow at my obvious incertitude. "Your powers?" I grinned and nodded, even if I was getting more and more nervous as time went along. I felt an other pulse only 2 hours later during English class, this time going really pale, but my colors returned fast. I felt yet an other pulse right as school ended, but I focused and only felt a dull shudder. We started walking towards where all the cars were and Daemon still looked at me intently.

"Yeah, Daemon. I'm fine. I'm just..." My words trailed off. He stopped walking, looking at me as if telling me to keep going. I saw curiosity in his emerald eyes. "I'm going to change soon..." His eyes went wide again. "You mean like...you're going to turn into a slender like your dad? With no face and hair and all?" I looked away. I was so nervous, I felt sick. He did lighten the mood quite a bit though with his next comment. "Aw darn it, you're already taller than me now." I laughed. It was true that I was several inches taller than him. I was a year older after all. My mom picked us both up and brought us home. In the car, I felt yet an other pulse. My mom noticed. "Kura, you feeling well?" I didn't feel like explaining it again, so I just looked at her and nodded, but I'm guessing she got the message from looking into my eyes, seeing as she raised a brow. I saw her at my side, the way she looked more distant than usual and smirked a bit. She was speaking telepathically with dad. I'd once asked my dad how this was possible, but he said he'd tell me when the time was right. From what I understood, a slender can only gain a mental link to a single person, and it lasts forever.

Me and Daemon chassed each other in the woods for a while. We then decided to play hide and seek. It was my turn to hide. I started climbing up a tree, but, only a few feet in the air, I was reminded of what could happen if I felt an other pulse. I climbed back down. I was running around, looking for a hiding place. I could still hear Daemon's counting somewhere behind me. "...27, 28, 29, 30..." Our set number was 50. I was running out of time... That's when an other pulse hit me. It sent shudders through me and I doubled over, paling a lot. I stood up shakily to notice that my tendrills had extended and that my skin tone wasn't returning to it's normal color. "Oh God..." No sooner did those words leave my lips that my whole body started to grow numb and I had to lean against a tree just to stand up. I finally decided to sit down. I couldn't stop this anyway. In the distance, I heard Daemon's voice. "Ready or not, here I come!" I tried to call out to him, but I couldn't find my voice. An other pulse coursed through me and I screwed my eyes shut and ground my teeth.

It wasn't painful like when I grew my tendrills, at least not now. I just felt so numb and tingly everywhere. I grabbed onto a strand of my hair for comfort, but it slipped from my grasp and I couldn't find it anymore. I winced when I felt a similar pain to when I grew my tendrills, only it was lower. I tried to bite down on my tongue to avoid letting out a scream, but I only felt a sharp pain as my teeth actually pierced my flesh and I tasted blood. Daemon's voice reached me again. "Kura? Kura!" I heard his footsteps against the dead leaves as he rushed over to me, but the world was blank and fuzzy and my mind was clouded. All my limbs felt numb as though they were covered in ice. When focus started to return to my mind, I felt weak and numb. I would have rubbed my eyes, but I knew it already that I no longer had any. My vision still returned to focus though, and I saw Daemon standing over me, pale and scared. I smirked a bit when I realized he was scared of me, yet he stayed because he also cared. I looked around. It was strange. Everything was slightly greyscale and blurred at the edges. I did also notice though, that my ability to sense auras was much stronger, as was my sense of smell. I felt the presence of a mouse scampering under the leaves, a robin in the tree, a squirrel running about, and the powerful sense of worry that came from my best friend. I tried to sit up a little, but I felt a sharp pain in my back, under my tendrills. He must have caught my slight gasp because he got closer to me. "Sakura? Hey are you ok?!" I lifted my head slightly to look up at him and smiled again. "Yeah, Daemon. I'm fine." I saw him bend down and dig a bit through the leaves. Before I could ask a question though, he pulled out my bright pink floral hair clip from the ground and handed it to me. "You dropped this..."

I extended a much longer white arm and took the clip carefully. My fingers were shaking. I held in my breath, unable to breath out. I raised my other hand shakily to the top of my head. I could only feel smooth skin. My mane of brown curls was gone. I suddently felt really scared. I clutched the scarf my dad had given me as tightly as I could. I tried to get up, but struggled for balance. Daemon rushed to my side to help me. He was only 12, but he was still so helpful. When I stood up at full hight, I noticed the source of the new pain in my back, which had amazingly already died down. Four new tendrills underneath the old ones, completing my set of 8. I was surprised at how easy it was for me to move my four first tendrills. I could bend and twist them in ways I never could as a human. I was also shocked at how quickly I was able to lift up the new four. My dad was right when he told me once that we had better controle over our powers in slender form. Both me and Daemon were in awe. He broke the silence first. "And I thought you were taller than me before..." I laughed, until my tooth/fang poked the inside of my cheek. I did stand over 6 feet tall now, towering over his already less than average size for a 12 year old guy. "We should head home fast." I struggled to walk at first with these abnormaly long limbs as well as a grand total of eight tendrills, but I finally managed.

Two men in black suits rushed in a dimly lit room, one carrying a notepad, the other a camera tape. Three more men were in the room. Two of which were dressed with ties, looking much fancier than the rest. They were the obvious leaders. "Sirs, we have news." One of the two leaders raised a brow at this. He motioned to the worker to speak. "We have a new target." "And what is so special about this?" "This one's 13 years old." Both men raised a brow and looked at each other before sending the rest of the men away. "So, Eric. What should we do about this?" The second man looked away pensively. "Same as we always do with our targets. Prepare for capture, Allan."

AN: DUNDUNDUNNNNNNNN OK HI. Wow this is a long chapter. So yeah...things are starting to get interesting... You'll all just have to wait and see. I'd just like to say thank you to Violet Petunia btw, I've never seen anybody review as much as you do...on anything...EVER. I'll call you the review master, if that's ok. I've thought about the ideas you gave me, and I must say...I think I'll pass on guys flirting with Sakura...but stuff is gonna happen...I don't wanna spoil anything, but Johnny's gonna become a main character pretty soon. Funny cuz he was a minor character in the first story and like...neevr mentioned here...well, HIS REAL LIFE INSPIRATION WAS UPSET HE DID NOTHING XD So...you're gonna do something. Until then, thank you all...